Civil works design for Meridian’s Wellington wind farm

Opus designed the civil works for the wind farm at Makara. Meridian Energy’s West Wind comprises 62 turbines on 53 square kilometres of steep, rugged terrain underlain by fractured and deformed greywacke bedrock in Makara, West of Wellington.

Opus carried out detailed geotechnical investigations to assess ground conditions for the design of the wind farm. Each of the wind turbines is of 2.3 MW capacity. They have a tower height of 67m and three 40m blades, giving a total height to the top of the blades of 111m.